The Genesis of the 1918 Spanish Influenza Pandemic Michael Worobey, Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, The University of Arizona
The Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918 was the most intense outbreak of disease in human history. It killed upwards of 50 million people (most in a six-week period) casting a long shadow of fear and mystery: nearly a century later, scientists have been unable to explain why, unlike all other influenza outbreaks, it killed young adults in huge numbers. I will describe how analyses of large numbers of influenzAuthor(s): No creator set

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The following resources are part of the module Civil Engineering Technology from the 2009/10 BSc (Hons) degree programme Commercial Management and Quantity Surveying. This was a lecture given by Mr Derek Taylor - Commercial Director for Keller Ground Engineering. It covers an introduction the Keller group of companies. Displacement and Replacement piling. Groun

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